Marcus Brauchli Biography
Marcus Brauchli is a media investor and advisor, as well as a journalist. From 2008 to 2012, he was The Washington Post’s executive editor. Brauchli was the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal before joining the Post.
Marcus Brauchli Age
He was born on 19 June 1961, in Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. Marcus is 62 years old as of June 2023.
Marcus Brauchli Education
Brauchli, who was born in Boulder, Colorado, graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1983. From 1991 to 1992, Brauchli was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.
Marcus Brauchli Wife- Spouse
He is happily married to his wife Maggie Farley, a former Los Angeles Times correspondent.
Marcus Brauchli Career
Brauchli was the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal before joining the Post. Brauchli had worked as a foreign correspondent for 15 years, mostly in Asia, and as a senior editor in New York for eight years. On September 11, 2001, he was the paper’s National Editor and played a key role in its coverage, which earned it a Pulitzer Prize. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. disclosed a takeover offer for Dow Jones & Co., the Journal’s parent company, shortly after Brauchli’s appointment as managing editor was announced. Brauchli remained as editor during the acquisition, but announced his resignation four months later, on April 22, 2008. The Post announced his hiring on July 8th, under new publisher Katharine Weymouth.
During his tenure, the Post received seven Pulitzer Prizes, including five for the newsroom, as well as numerous other journalism honors. According to a 2012 report in The New York Times, Brauchli’s “relationship with the publisher has cooled.” It also stated that Raju Narisetti, whom Brauchli had hired from the Journal as a “close partner…in the digital reinvention of the newsroom,” had left the Post in January. According to the Times, ” one important measure, The Post’s efforts are paying off.” According to comScore, it has recently averaged 19.6 million unique visitors per month, making it the second-most-visited American newspaper Web site, trailing only The New York Times.”
According to The New York Times article, “Mr. Brauchli has reacted to the upheaval by overseeing one of the most sweeping and closely watched reorientations of any newsroom in the country.” The editors now place a premium on online metrics and freely borrow from the playbooks of more agile online competitors such as Politico and The Huffington Post. Brauchli left the Post as editor at the end of 2012 to take on a new role for the Post’s parent company, before the Post was sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. For two years, he worked as a consultant for the parent company, Graham Holdings Co. In 2014, Brauchli co-founded a new investment firm, North Base Media. North Base Media is focused on digital-media opportunities in emerging markets and technologies enabling media companies to engage audiences better.
Marcus Brauchli Net Worth
Marcus has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.